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As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca is Islam's most sacred city and strictly off limits to non-Muslims. On a journey perilous enough for any American reporter, Nomani is determined to take...
2) The Capture and Escape From the Sioux: The Ordeals of an American Pioneer Woman Captured by India
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"A famous account of abduction and escape from hostile Indians in the old West.
In July, 1864 hostile Oglala Sioux Indians attacked the wagon train of the pioneering Kelly and Larimer families approximately 80 miles west of Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Several people were killed or wounded but Sarah Larimer and Fanny Kelly, together with some of their children, were taken into captivity by the Indians. On the second night of their captivity Sarah Larimer...
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The popular host of the Money Moves podcast and youngest person ever to trade on the New York Stock Exchange provides winning tips for women to help them shift their financial mindset, become confident about their money, set them on a path to financial security, and live their best lives.
In 2017, when she was only twenty-two, Lauren Simmons became the youngest full-time female trader at the New York Stock Exchange, and the second African American...
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The author of reflective, funny, and thought-provoking articles and stories exploring life as an African American woman raised in the south. Kimberly, native of Jacksonville, Florida mother, wife, marketer and stylist has received numerous awards to include the APTA Innovation Award for Best Comprehensive Marketing Campaign. She Is currently a featured author on the Hallmark Mahogany platform.
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Beginning as an Internet language exchange, a French man and an American woman unexpectedly find themselves engaged in a new kind of love.Based on a true story, this is a humorous, honest, sensual, and touching portrait of two people breaking free of their inner prisons to discover a unique way of relating outside of the box.It's an exploration of a dynamic interaction of love and freedom, full of laughter, tears, magic and delight.
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In Venetian Bind, Detective Marko Korb and his associate Kelan Su, a Chinese-American woman, must hunt down a murderer and prevent a devastating terrorist attack in the romantic city of Venice. Korb, a fat, egotistical, and brilliant detective, and Kelan Su, a former Chicago police officer, licensed attorney, and martial arts expert, arrive in Venice to investigate the murder of Stefan Pakuli?, a former Serbian paramilitary leader and accused war...
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Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television-like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family-but in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighborhood where she was born from...
8) Birch Hall
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A young woman swept off her feet, and swept away to a distant land...in a world on the brink of war...BIRCH HALL tells the story of Natalie Kumansky, a Russian-American woman in San Francisco who meets Sir John Carrington and quickly becomes his wife. As she settles into life as the Lady of Birch Hall, the shadow of war darkens their new life together. Through the grim realities of the conflict -- from air raids to the loss of friends and family --...
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"The president died earlier this morning in his sleep."That's the startling news Carla Hamilton, fashion model turn politician-and the first African American woman to serve as vice president of the United States-receives a month after an election that will turn the country over to a new president. Carla understands she will occupy the Oval Office for only six weeks.But in Washington, D.C., six weeks is a lifetime.Hours after being sworn in, Carla...
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This novel takes the reader on a journey into contemporary Tanzanian life in an honest and unsentimental way, from the bustling towns to its vast, dangerous wilderness.
Set in Tanzania, Nothing Is Wrong follows the lives of three people living on the fringes of society: a wayward vagrant, a curious Tanzanian girl, and Sal, a young American woman suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from the war in Afghanistan. As their lives come together,...
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"A wonderful gift to Black women. . . . Richardson and Wade, with pens dipped in abundant love, gracefully advise us as to the lessons of the past we must embrace and those we must discard, if we are to achieve true self-empowerment and emotional liberation." - Darlene Clark Hine, Ph.D., coauthor of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
In this provocative rethinking of the African American woman's experience, Brenda Lane...
12) California Wine
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"The wine! The food! The Italian!"She's come to Italy for a little adventure, good food, and a last trip with her college-aged daughter. When a good-looking Italian winemaker invites her to dinner, she finds more than she anticipated. But how can romance in Italy be more than a fling when she lives on the California coast?Elizabeth Ladina took one risk in her life and she's vowed not to make another. Although she had a good life (she thought) with...
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"A Chinese American woman fears for her life in her first night in in the house she's bought in an all-white suburb. The only one who'll help her kung-fu Maoist daughter protect her is a low-rent private dick, Harry Palmer. Dennis Broe's newest meta-noir drops his shamus into the corruption and racism of 1950's L.A. real estate. It's a heady trip among a galaxy of career lowlifes with delirious prose framing this metamorphosis of fact...
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Jade Greenway grows up with two heroes that guide her life, her grandfather who died flying Navy jets over Korea, and Sally Ride who was the first American woman in space.After earning her bachelor's degree in physics and her master's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, Jade, now a Navy officer, begins flight training in Florida and Texas, where she meets Captain Richard Quincy, who will change her life.When the law is changed to allow women...